Alexa, Let's Go Shopping!
summary
A working Alexa shopping skill and a PHP voice-app framework are demonstrated, showing step-by-step filtering that reduces 16,141 shoes to 7 matches and returns four buyable items. The talk argues voice commerce works best for repeat consumables (toilet paper, cat food, books) but not complex products, and calls out blockers—poor product descriptions, availability checks, payment/confirmation flows, and device limits (95% of Echo devices lack displays)—while proposing smarter dialogs, richer APIs and continual learning as solutions.
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chapters (32)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:50Skills for Customers & Custom Skills
- 2:19(R)Evolution
- 3:05Voice Commerce Today
- 3:54Voice Commerce Forecast
- 5:26Weekly Market
- 5:48Supermarket
- 5:59Specialty Store
- 6:27Catalog
- 7:10Internet
- 10:01Buying Jeans
- 10:45Buying Sneakers
- 11:37Buying a Wardrobe
- 12:25Buying a Car
- 13:07Issues
- 16:56Comparison
- 18:47Result
- 19:41Shopping Advice via Dialogue
- 20:21Querying Parameters
- 21:17Sneaker Shop
- 23:20Step by Step to the Product
- 24:09Regular Customer
- 24:44the Chaotic One
- 26:01Echo Show
- 26:33Other Complex Products
- 27:23Backend Requirements
- 28:25Process of Shopping Advice
- 29:31Direct Completion
- 29:54Adding to Shopping Cart
- 30:16Sending to Smartphone
- 30:47Summary
- 32:27Coming Soon to Theaters
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